Twin Earths Daily 5/28/62 by Al McWilliams

This piece comes from the collection of my friend Bob Murphy. Although we had only met in person twice when he allowed me to visit with him in rural Georgia, we had years of correspondence. At the time we met, I was about half his age in my mid 40's but we connected over strip art and in particular our love for Milton Caniff and Terry and Pirates. Bob was a kind and generous collector sharing his love for art with me. On the two times I visited him, I remember this particular daily among the treasure trove of other art Bob owned. I don't think the scan can capture how breath taking this is in person. Having seen it in person, I was hoping it would end up with either myself of my good friend Benno who was the one that had introduced me to Bob. We had some discussion around the art at the time it became available and in the end it will reside with me here. I am honored to become the caretaker of this piece after it was loved by Bob for so many decades. I am still awaiting it as I get my heritage shipments in batches but I decided to post the image today as I am updating my site shortly and there is some housekeeping with scans I must do with that process.

Ha! I forgot to talk about the art itself! it is a rare single panel daily with a great sci-fi scape and a stunning portrait. Alden was fantastic at machinery and flying objects having gotten his start drawing aviation illustrations before finding comics. His women are surpassed only by Frazetta and Raymond. I still think McWilliams might be the most underappreciated artist but the final price of this daily would suggest otherwise...at least in this case. Check out some of the McWilliams art I have in this gallery. It is not my entire McWilliams collection but the best pieces are all here.